This Oct. 5 photo shows the Babe Ruth autograph Robert Garland got while visiting New York on his honeymoon in 1943.

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Roanoke Times

Garland was a soldier boy on his honeymoon with his new bride, Frances, in New York City, where they stayed at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel for $10 a night ($7.50 with the serviceman's discount) and where he attended the first three games of the 1943 World Series between the New York Yankees and the St. Louis Cardinals.

Garland, a Roanoke native who had recently been inducted as World War II intensified, was in his Army uniform when he scrambled down to the box seats where Ruth was sitting ...